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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :

Did anyone have a sense of deja vu when you saw the temporal rift that Admiral Janeway used?

I think that it looked very similar to the "Babylon 5" jumppoints!

Hmmm......

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

I dunno about that one. I've seen a few Babylon 5 episodes, and I think the jump gates and the temporal rift from "Endgame" look pretty different. The B5 jump gates are much crisper with a "scaley" appearance and seemingly set structure. The temporal rift was much "fuzzier" and free-flowing. It looked more like a segment of the slipsteam conduit (although greener) with a little bit of nebula effects added to the mix.

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Posted by Wes1701E (Member # 212) on :

IMO, B5's visual effects were crap. The jumpgate looked like a textured cylinder rotating. Ugh. I know 12 year olds that can do better

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :

Yeah? You try doing the amount of VFX they had in each ep, on the budget they had.

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

I've only scene a few episodes of Babylon 5, but I think that, on the whole, the special effects of that show were pretty good. I think the ships battles were done fairly well, and I like a lot of the designs that were there (Babylon stations 4 and 5, the White Stars, and the Narn vessels).

Yeah, the FX definitely looked like it was computer generated, but I think that it helped the charm of the show. That's much the same way I feel about Andromeda's FX.

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

I agree to an extent... B5 would just look wrong with the crisp, more model-like CGI seen on Voyager and DS9. Part of the show's "feel" came from the shoestring budget, and just like Star Wars looked wrong with most of the Special Edition VFX, I think B5 on an unlimited VFX budget just wouldn't be right.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Geez Wes, give B5 a break. They were one of the first shows to use CGI instead of models like Star Trek. Sure now it doesn't look good, but at the time it was.

And it would look odd if suddenly everything changed to the more realistic look seen today.

Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Once again..B5 IS realistic. There's no atmosphere in space, thus no diffusion qualities. It's supposed to be crisp & seem fake.